Absolute proof that the Kenyan-trained Somali troops from Isiolo military base in Lower Jubba are majority Marehan and minority Garre as even you guys have admitted. You have Dhuumaal (rer Ahmed/Marehan) as the main head with guys like Col Cabaas (Talxe/Marehan) and Col Fartaag (rer Ugas Shermarke/Marehan) as his deputies. In fact, Col Abdi Mahdi is the only Ogaden commander in it and from what I have read from guys like New York/Shift you guys are not even fans of his. Even while in Dhooblay together, the positions were crossed between Ras Kamboni (Ogaden) and "TFG troops" (mostly Marehan) and they clashed a couple of times prior."We are determined to cleanse al Shabaab from Kismayu and then from all of Somalia," General Yusuf Hussein Dumaal, head of government troops in southern Somalia, told Reuters by phone from Taabto village on Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/ ... PT20111019
You also have a largely organized Marehan troop (Dollow camp) who control all parts of Gedo except Baardheere. If you put down pride for a second, do you not see now why Ahmed Madoobe has been very open to trying to politically ally with Marehan something both Patriot and Shift have been attacking him for in the joint Dollow-Madoobe reconciliation initiative? If the fighters in Lower Jubba are shared and Gedo has a 100% Marehan troop composition and Al Shabaab is removed from the land and in the eventuality of going back to clan warfare, are the Sade then not in the best advantage still in Jubbaland as a whole and in Kismaayo?
It makes sense for Madoobe to compromise with the Marehan.